Brazil's Real Closes Stronger

BRASILIA—Brazil's real closed stronger against the dollar Friday after the country's central bank intervened to reverse a rapid weakening of the Brazilian currency.

The real exited active trading at BRL2.0818 to the dollar, according to Tullett Prebon via Factset, after briefly weakening to BRL2.1172 in late morning trading, just before the central bank announced a swap auction that halted the slide.